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by foysavas 1y ago
Engine Yard's management took several strategic missteps over the years. One of them was stifling Merb. The quotes from Yehuda describe his difficulty in making the best of a forced merger. Ezra's vision for Merb and DHH's vi
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by foysavas 1y ago
I wrote a book on Merb and was an active contributor. Before that I had developed several apps with Rails. That said, the Rails vs Merb era was mostly good natured competition and I don't view the Rails vs Merb period as itself having
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by foysavas 1y ago
The "and" in "try and..." may be a shorthand for the material implication of two temporal modal paths: "try and X" = can X -> must X = not can X or must X That said, the word "both" doesn't co
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by foysavas 2y ago
> "specification of system behavior" sounds like a programming language to me By "specification language" Lamport means one capable of verification via model checking. In contrast, "programming languages" ar
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by foysavas 4y ago
Th article traces the development of computers back through the development of symbolic logic. It may seem silly to connect to such ancient history, but the path from then to now has left a large backlog for future technologists to resurfac
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by foysavas 6y ago
Mandarin speakers ability to understand slowed down Shanghainese is likely a recent development. This is because much of traditional Shanghainese diction, grammar, and even pronunciation has been reduced or morphed to better suit the newer
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by foysavas 11y ago
Most likely, 'vita brevis'.
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by foysavas 11y ago
Namecoin isn't actually a "registrar" in this case, but the canonical blockchain used with Passcard.info. You can think of it as the self-registration alternative. The Namecoin link is definitely a conversion blackhole. This
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by foysavas 11y ago
For educational purposes only and not legal advice: This incentive plan is structured as restricted stock units that are paid out as shares upon an IPO or trade sale (called in the doc, the "Initial Vesting Event"). Tax laws in th
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by foysavas 12y ago
FYI: The carry distribution schedule mentioned in the article (carry after 3x) is way off market for a VC GP-LP relationship. The most typical arrangement is 20% after 1x in LP distributions, with some variation in what are called hurdle ra
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by foysavas 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
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by foysavas 13y ago
Sadly, I've read pieces where obsidian blades are labeled as nanotech as well. In other news, cranberry glass is actually kind of cool and helped win this guy a Nobel Prize in 1925: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric
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by foysavas 13y ago
For anyone potentially dissuaded to watch the talk based upon this parent comment, please know that this talk is not actually about the dynamics of individual success. Instead, it reflects on how the aggregate outlook of a society across tw
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Go Ahead, Cripple My Being(foysavas.com)
3 points by foysavas 15y ago|0 comments
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by foysavas 15y ago
A list of misconceptions from both sides would alone pique my interest.
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by foysavas 15y ago
Startup founders get tired now-and-again. Knowing a co-founder is working while you're resting is a source of invaluable relief against the pressure to get things done. Long-term, this kind of emotional stability prevents burn-out. That's i
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by foysavas 15y ago
Question for anyone: if you're not a single founder, how did you meet your co-founders?
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If I were a single founder...(foysavas.com)
128 points by foysavas 15y ago|49 comments
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by foysavas 15y ago
Only after seeing how many comments on the article attempted to genuinely refute the article did I get a sense of how few people grasp the foundation of mathematics (that is, the composition of arbitrary assumptions to agreeable statements)
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by foysavas 15y ago
There is clear resonance between his main point and Kazantzakis's famous epitaph: Δεν ελπίζω τίποτε. Δεν φοβούμαι τίποτε. Είμαι λεύτερος. I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. That said, awesome post.
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by foysavas 15y ago
Add in a few more subdomains to cover the other Google apps (docs and mail are the most important ones to me) and I'll probably switch over to your plugin instead (I mean who needs configuration options?). Also be sure to add 'all_frames' t
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by foysavas 15y ago
There are a lot of Google TLDs ;-)
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by foysavas 15y ago
Would have saved me time!
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by foysavas 15y ago
+1 it here if you find it useful: https://plus.google.com/105349419062025895238/posts/LwzR4aJV...
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G- (Chrome Extension removes Google+)(chrome.google.com)
56 points by foysavas 15y ago|16 comments
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by foysavas 15y ago
YAWN - Yet Another Way to do Nothing BTW, thanks for giving up on Google Health. This is way better.
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by foysavas 15y ago
Who else has a hunch they don't yet have access to Brink accounts, but instead have access to log files that would reveal password when users now change them?
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by foysavas 15y ago
I often wish that DM would have replaced AR in Rails 3. Why Sequel?
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by foysavas 15y ago
Wait, is the intent of the video to draw a comparison between the over-saturation of unpolished iPhone apps with an endless supply of interns?
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Ask HN: Would auto-increment rejection numbers improve YC rejection letters?
3 points by foysavas 15y ago|0 comments

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